Nuxálk Han'gǔl

This is a joke-orthography for Nuxálk. The idea is to use Han'gǔl to write the language which it is the least suited for.

Phoneme inventory

The pronunciation of the Nuxálk consonants has been given phonetically, because it might be interesting to compare the actual pronunciation of those consonants with the choice of jamo given to them.

Consonants

	Bilabial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar		Uvular		Glottal
		Central	Lateral		Palatalized	Labialized	Plain	Labialized
Nuxálk romanization	<p	t			k	kw	q	qw	7>
Phonetic value	[pʰ	tʰ			kʲʰ	kʷʰ	qʰ	qʷ	ʔ]
Jamo	<ㅍ	ㅌ			ㅋ	ㅋ	ㆁ	ㆁ	ㆆ>
Korean pronunciation of jamo	/pʰ	tʰ			kʰ	kʰ	ŋ	ŋ	ʔ/
Nuxálk romanization	<p'	t'			k'	kw'	q'	qw'>
Phonetic value	[pʼ	tʼ			kʼʲ	kʼʷ	qʼ	qʼʷ]
Jamo	<ㅃ	ㄸ			ㄲ	ㄲ	ㆀ	ㆀ>
Korean pronunciation of jamo	/p͈	t͈			k͈	k͈/	?	?
Nuxálk romanization		<ts>
Phonetic value		[tsʰ]
Jamo		<ㅊ>
Korean pronunciation of jamo		/tɕʰ/
Nuxálk romanization		<ts'	tl'>
Phonetic value		[tsʼ	tɬʼ]
Jamo		<ㅉ	ㅈ>
Korean pronunciation of jamo		[tɕ͈	tɕ]
Nuxálk romanization		<s	lh		c	cw	x	xw	h>
Phonetic value		[s	ɬ		xʲ	xʷ	χ	χʷ	h]
Jamo		<ㅅ	ㅀ		ㆅ	ㆅ	ㅆ	ㅆ	ㅎ>
Korean pronunciation of jamo		/s	lh/		?	?	/s͈	s͈	h/
Nuxálk romanization	<m	n>
Phonetic value	[m	n]
Jamo	<ㅁ	ㄴ>
Korean pronunciation of jamo	/m	n/
Nuxálk romanization			<l	y		w>
Phonetic value			[l	j		w]
Jamo			<ㄹ	ㅣ*		ㅜ*>
Korean pronunciation of jamo			/ɾ	i		u/

*See Vowels and Other notes below.

Vowels

Neutral vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Nuxálk romanization	<i	a	u>
Phonemic value	/i	ɐ	u/
Phonetic value
Jamo	ㅣ	ㅐ	ㅗ
Korean pronunciation of jamo	/i	ɛ	o/
Nuxálk romanization	<yi	ya	yu>
Phonemic value	/ji	jɐ	ju/
Phonetic value
Jamo	<ㅢ	ㅒ	ㅛ>
Korean pronunciation of jamo	/ɰi	jɛ	jo/
Nuxálk romanization	<wi	wa	wu>
Phonemic value	/wi	wɐ	wu/
Phonetic value
Jamo	<ㅟ	ㅙ	ㅝ>
Korean pronunciation of jamo	/wi	wɛ	wʌ/

Labial vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Nuxálk romanization	<i	a	u>
Phonemic value	/i	ɐ	u/
Phonetic value
Jamo	ㅔ	ㅏ	ㅜ
Korean pronunciation of jamo	/e	a	u/
Nuxálk romanization	<yi	ya	yu>
Phonemic value	/ji	jɐ	ju/
Phonetic value
Jamo	<ㅖ	ㅑ	ㅠ>
Korean pronunciation of jamo	/je	ja	ju/
Nuxálk romanization	<wi	wa	wu>
Phonemic value	/wi	wɐ	wu/
Phonetic value
Jamo	<ㅞ	ㅘ	ᆍ>
Korean pronunciation of jamo	/we	wa/	?

Syllable blocks

Sequences of CV, CVC or VC are stacked together into a syllable block, if possible. The consonants ㆁ, ㆆ, ㆀ and ㆅ are not stackable, and therefore left out from syllable blocks. The vowel ᆍ is also not stackable, and therefore left uncomposed. The consonant ㅀ can only appear at the tail position of a syllable block. Unstackable consonant jamo, ㅀ that is not preceded by a vowel, and any consonants that are neither preceded or followed by a vowel are written alone using the Hangul Compatibility Jamo of Unicode. So for example, the word sps (northeast wind) which contain no vowels is written ㅅㅍㅅ.

Vowels, with the exception of ᆍ, are always used in syllable blocks. If the vowel is not preceded by any stackable consonant, the null initial is used.

The consonants p, t, k, and kw are represented by ㅂ, ㄷ, ㄱ resp. ㄱ in the tail position of a syllable block.

How to mark labialized consonants

There are three kinds of consonant jamo: labial (marked with red in the chart), non-labial (marked with blue) and neutral (black text), and two kinds of vowels: labial and neutral. The labial consonants are identical to their non-labial counterparts, so they are instead distinguished by the use of vowels before them.

Labial vowels are used if they are followed by a labial consonant, otherwise neutral vowels are used. There may be any number of neutral consonants between the labial vowel and the labial consonant. There may [u]not[/u] be any other vowels or non-labial consonants between them. They must also be both in the same word.

낏마ㅜ For example, in the word k'ismaw (nine), the vowel a is followed by the labial consonant w, so the a is represented by the labial jamo ㅏ. The i however is not followed by any labial consonant before the second vowel, so it is represented by the neutral vowel ㅣ.

Word-final i is written with ㅣ however, if preceded by k, k' or c.

In cases where a labial consonant is in such a position that its labialness can not be marked on any vowel, the jamo ㅱ is placed before that consonant.

Other notes

w and y are written with the w- and y-series of vowel jamo, if they are followed by a vowel. If not, then w is written as ㅜ and y as ㅣ (both without any null initial).

Long vowels are marked by putting : after the jamo or syllable block. Stress is unmarked.

Text samples

From Wikipedia

clhp'xwlhtlhplhhskwts' (he had had in his possession a bunchberry plant) ㆅㅀㅃㅱㅆㅀㅌㅀㅍㅀㅀㅅㅱㅋㅉ

From some source

English Nuxalk One Maw 마ㅜ Two Lhwaas ㅀ왜〯ㅅ Three Asmús 앳못 Four Mús 못 Five Ts'ícw 쩨ㆅ Man Kwtmts ㅱㅋㅌㅁㅊ Woman Cnas ㆅ냇 Sun Snx ㅅㄴㅆ Moon Tl'uk 족 Water Qla ㆁ라

From another source (probably another dialect because the numbers have different names)

Nuxalk English Smaw One ㅅ마ㅜ Lhnus Two ㅀ놋 Asmus Three 앳못 Mus Four 못 Ts'icw Five 쩨ㆅ T'xulh Six ㄸ쏧 Nusalhklhm Seven 노샗ㅌㅀㅁ K'ilhnus Eight 낋놋 K'ismaw Nine 낏마ㅜ Ts'klakt Ten ㅉㅋ락ㅌ

Tl'ux ta manlh t'ax
좄태맨ㅀ땠
Putl'ilhsuts ulh inu alh ti suncwt
포짏솣옳이노앯티순ㆅㅌ
Stutwiniitulhcw ala snknicilhats
ㅅ톧위니〯 툻ㆅ애래ㅅㄴㅋ니ㆅ잃앷
Alhkaltcwmtulhx alh ti suncw
앯칼ㅌㆅㅁ톯ㅆ앯티순ㆅ
Way!
왜ㅣ！

Our heavenly father
We come to you today
We thank you for the food
Take care of us today
Amen!